Summer Crossing 夏天总是温热

Flame-haired Grady McNeil is beautiful rich and defiant．Her privileged society life leaves her wanting more than her conventional parents have in mind for her，and excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde，a Brooklyn-born Jewish parking attendant．When Grady’s motherland father leave her alone one summer in their New York penthouse．her secret affair intensifies and she is forced to make decisions that will alter her future indelibly．
　　Anticipating Holly Go lightly with its flee-spirited heroine，Truman Capote’s recently discovered d6but novel is also a captivating portrayal of first love and the endless possibilities of youth．

TRUMAN CAPOTE was born in New Orleans in 1924 and was raised in various parts of the South．his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia．He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first-and last-regularj0b．In 1948 his first novel，Other Voices，Other Rooms，was published to inter-national critical acclaim．assuring Capote a place among the prominent postwar American writers．His other works include the Grass Harp（1951）’Breakfast at Tiffany（1958）’In Cold Blood （1965）,which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication，Musk for Chameleons（1980）and Answered Prayers（1986）. Summer Crossing，Capote’s first novel，was found in a box in 2000 and was published for the first time by Penguin Classics in 2005．Truman Capote died in August 1984．